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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:xCal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal" xmlns:geo="https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"> <channel> <title>MetaFilter</title> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/</link> <description>The past 24 hours of MetaFilter</description> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 20:08:38 GMT</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 20:08:38 GMT</lastBuildDate> <language>en-us</language> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <ttl>60</ttl> <atom:link href="https://rss.metafilter.com/metafilter.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>Personal relationship responses to AI</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-wants-everyone-to-have-ai-friends-but-i-think-hes-missing-the-point-of-ai-and-the-point-of-friendship">"Mark Zuckerberg has a potential solution for those seeking to build new friendships: building new friends using AI."</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.pace.edu/news/risk-of-building-emotional-ties-responsive-ai">Dr. Zhan Zhang</a>, Pace University: <blockquote> People forming emotional ties with AI tools is not a new phenomenon; it has been observed in prior research involving human interactions with voice assistants like Alexa and social robots. Emotional connections with AI are a nuanced and complex subject. On one hand, AI can offer significant emotional support, such as companionship or empathy, by engaging users in meaningful conversations, particularly when it is designed to mimic human-like voices. However, these emotional ties raise critical questions and concerns. For example, forming emotional connections with AI often involves sharing personal thoughts and feelings, which brings up issues of data privacy and the potential misuse of this sensitive information. Moreover, since AI does not possess genuine emotions, any emotional connection felt by the user is inherently one-sided. This creates ethical concerns about the possibility of manipulating users' emotions. More research is needed to investigate this fascinating topic, which has significant societal implications. In particular, human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers can play a crucial role in examining emotional ties with GenAI from both sociotechnical and ethical perspectives.</blockquote>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208762/Personal-relationship-responses-to-AI</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208762</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 20:08:38 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lemkin</dc:creator> <category>AI</category> <category>computers</category> <category>markzuckerberg</category> <category>technology</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208762/Personal-relationship-responses-to-AI/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>The road trip that inspired the 1984 movie Paris, Texas</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/30/wim-wenders-paris-texas-road-trip-in-pictures">Photographs by Wim Wenders</a> taken in preparation for his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gdx44jdkRw">1984 film</a> Paris, Texas [<a href="https://archive.org/details/paris.-texas.-1984.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify">Full Movie</a>] While many <a href="https://www.latlong.net/location/paris-texas-locations-524">locations</a> in the movie such as <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ze5S1w6wdnZD2e8n8">The Motel</a> have barely changed in the last 40 years, the surrounding land in Texas shows <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/9m4m4djmf71N8GiJA">the scars left behind</a> (zoom the map out) after decades of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpjack">oil</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/08/09/486756732/texas-towns-fortunes-rise-and-fall-with-pump-jacks-and-oil-prices">exploration</a>. Those abandoned oil wells pose a <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/08/texas-orphan-wells-explained-railroad-commission-abandoned/">growing environmental threat</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208761/The-road-trip-that-inspired-the-1984-movie-Paris-Texas</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208761</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 19:48:46 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lanark</dc:creator> <category>1984</category> <category>oil</category> <category>ParisTexas</category> <category>Texas</category> <category>WimWenders</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208761/The-road-trip-that-inspired-the-1984-movie-Paris-Texas/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Laetitia Pilkington: Beating them at their own game</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/she-was-the-best-stand-up-comic-in-18th-century/">Charlie Jane Anders describes a surprising biography;</a> a woman who was thrown out of her house in the early eighteen century, and made a living by being funny. Originally in public, out of a window.<br/><br/>Her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetitia_Pilkington">Wikipedia article</a> has more details, not all consistent with the first summary.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208760/Laetitia-Pilkington-Beating-them-at-their-own-game</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208760</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 18:57:10 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>clew</dc:creator> <category>biography</category> <category>divorce</category> <category>Pilkington</category> <category>standup</category> <category>Swift</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208760/Laetitia-Pilkington-Beating-them-at-their-own-game/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>"You hear about Ruby Ridge, about Waco. You don't hear about Osage Ave."</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.phillyvoice.com/move-bombing-documentary-book-podcast-guide/">Forty years ago</a>, <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/1985-move-bombing-philadelphia-40th-anniversary/4182667/">city police dropped a satchel bomb on the rowhome at 6221 Osage Ave., killing six adults and five children inside</a>. The May 13, 1985, blast <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2025/05/13/move-bombing-philadelphia-40th-anniversary">followed a lengthy standoff in which cops fired tear gas canisters, high-pressure hoses and over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house</a>. They had arrived to arrest several members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization)">MOVE</a>, the Black liberation group that lived communally at the property and whose followers adopted the last name of its founder, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Africa">John Africa</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208759/You-hear-about-Ruby-Ridge-about-Waco-You-dont-hear-about-Osage-Ave</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208759</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 18:25:10 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>Bombing</category> <category>JohnAfrica</category> <category>Liberation</category> <category>MOVE</category> <category>Murder</category> <category>Philadelphia</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208759/You-hear-about-Ruby-Ridge-about-Waco-You-dont-hear-about-Osage-Ave/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>A Human-Scaled Journey</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/home.php">American cartoonist Sylvia Odhner's single serving comics about the need for better designed communities.</a> <br/><br/><a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/shopping.php">The Shopping Center Disconnect</a> <a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/walklight.php">The Walk Light</a> <a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/independence.php">Cars and Independence</a>, with <a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/revisiting.php">Revisiting Independence</a> after people got mad at her for that comic <a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/culture.php">A Culture of Positive Change</a> <a href="https://sylviaodhner.com/humanscaled/transit.php">Public Transit is an Underrated Experience</a> I know we can be quite an argumentative bunch when it comes to cars and bikes and all other transport options here in North America, but we should strive for kindness anyway.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208758/A-Human-Scaled-Journey</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208758</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:28:30 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kitteh</dc:creator> <category>carculture</category> <category>publictransport</category> <category>sylviaodhner</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208758/A-Human-Scaled-Journey/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title> Canadian small presses #11 </title> <description><![CDATA[Under the fold, large independent Canadian publishing houses <a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/">Arsenal Pulp Press</a>, <a href="https://www.dundurn.com/">Dundurn Press</a>, and <a href="https://houseofanansi.com">House of Anansi</a>.<br/><br/>Here's the next in a series of <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/tags/canadiansmallpress/37027">Canadian small press roundups</a>. I've listed a number of Vancouver's <b><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/">Arsenal Pulp Press</a></b> titles in small press roundups before. They put out a dozen or more books/year of literary fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction, and poetry. Their titles include:<ul><li>the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/all-our-ordinary-stories-by-teresa-wong-1.7319327">CBC Canada Reads 2025</a> long-listed books <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/All-Our-Ordinary-Stories">All Our Ordinary Stories</a></i> by Teresa Wong and <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dandelion">Dandelion</a></i> by <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/dandelion-by-jamie-chai-yun-liew-1.6280973">Jamie Chai Yun Liew</a></li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Beaver-Hills-Forever">Beaver Hills Forever</a></i> by Conor Kerr, whose last novel was a finalist for both the Giller and the Atwood Gibson prizes</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Perfect-Little-Angels">Perfect Little Angels</a></i> by Vincent Anioke, which was a finalist for the 2024 <a href="https://www.writerstrust.com/awards/dayne-ogilvie-prize">Dayne Ogilvie Prize</a> for a debut book by a LGBTQ2S+ writer</li><li>Graphic memoir <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Dissident-Club">The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile</a></i> by Taha Siddiqui & Hubert Maury and translated by David Homel</li><li>YA novel with a protagonist with OCD <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/A-Drop-in-the-Ocean">A Drop in the Ocean</a></i> by Léa Taranto</li><li>Asian-Canadian children's picture book <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/E/Eddy-s-Shadow-Puppets">Eddy's Shadow Puppets</a></i> by Karina Zhou</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/I/i-cut-my-tongue-on-a-broken-country">i cut my tongue on a broken country</a></i> by poet Kyo Lee</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/A-Perfect-Day-for-a-Walk-by-the-Water">A Perfect Day for a Walk by the Water: Exploring Vancouver's Shores</a></i> by Bill Arnott, a <a href="https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/winners-finalists/#2025">finalist</a> for the 2025 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Post-Man">Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person</a></i> by Alex Manley</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Staying-Power">Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose</a></i> by Zena Sharman</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/This-Book-Is-a-Knife">This Book Is a Knife: Radical Working-Class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change</a></i> by L.E. Fox</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Something-Not-Nothing">Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love</a></i> by Sarah Leavitt, a <a href="https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/winners-finalists/#2025">finalist</a> for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes</li><li><i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/F/Finding-Otipemisiwak">Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves</a></i> by Andrea Currie, just <a href="https://atlanticbookawards.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ABAS-Shortlist-Press-Release-2025.pdf ">nominated (pdf)</a> for the 2025 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award</li><li><i>and two on CBC's <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2024-1.7403513">The best Canadian fiction of 2024</a>: <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-Land">Bad Land</a> by Corinna Chong and <i><a href="https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-Houses">Bad Houses</a> by John Elizabeth Stintzi.</i></i></i></li></ul> With more than 2,500 Canadian-authored titles in print, <b><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/">Dundurn Press</a></b> publishes fiction titles that speak to diverse and international audiences. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/71-canadian-fiction-books-to-read-in-spring-2025-1.7443365">CBC recommends</a></b> their titles <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754591-annapurna-s-bounty">Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold</a></i> by Veena Gokhale, <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754065-a-different-hurricane">A Different Hurricane</a></i> by H. Nigel Thomas, and <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754898-the-road-to-goderich">The Road to Goderich</a></i> by Linda McQuaig, and <a href="https://torontonicity.com/2025/03/13/best-canadian-books-for-spring-2025/"><i>Torontonicity</i></a></b> recommended <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead">The Toronto Book Of The Dead</a></i> by Adam Bunch. Their literary imprint, <b><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/_cp22123-rare-machines">Rare Machines</a></b>, published <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754980-devouring-tomorrow">Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food</a></i> edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis, <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750333-alphabet-soup">Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters</a></i> by A. Gregory Frankson, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/71-canadian-fiction-books-to-read-in-spring-2025-1.7443365">CBC-recommended</a></b> <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754478-the-hypebeast">The Hypebeast</a></i> by Adnan Khan, and <i><a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751491-naniki">Naniki</a></i> by Oonya Kempadoo, which was a <a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#fiction">2024 GG finalist in fiction</a></b> and <a href="https://carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-longlist ">longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction</a>. <b><a href="https://houseofanansi.com">House of Anansi</a></b> publishes books for all ages. Titles include:<ul><li>Soon to be released books include the <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/griffin-poetry-prize-anthology-2025">Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025</a></i>, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/in-too-deep">In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World</a></i> by Toronto-based music journalists Adam Feibel and Matt Bobkin, a definitive biography, <i><a href=" https://houseofanansi.com/products/john-candy">John Candy: A Life in Comedy</a></i> by Paul Myers, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-golden-daughter">The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany</a></i> by former journalist Halina St James, a translation of the winner of the 2011 Robert-Cliche First Novel Award and finalist for the 2012 GG for French-language Fiction, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-hand-of-iman">The Hand of Iman</a></i> by Ryad Assani-Razaki, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/i-make-my-own-fun">I Make My Own Fun</a></i>, an unhinged romp of a novel through fame, obsession, and fandom by Hannah Beer (which <i>The Daily Mail</i> called "a dark, crazed reversal of <i>Notting Hill</i>"), and <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/collections/coming-soon/products/as-the-earth-dreams">As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories</a></i> edited by Terese Mason Pierre and including stories by Trynne Delaney, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Chinelo Onwalu.</li><li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/71-canadian-fiction-books-to-read-in-spring-2025-1.7443365">CBC recommends</a> their titles <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/a-daughters-place">A Daughter's Place</a></i> by Martha Bátiz, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/everything-is-fine-here">Everything is Fine Here</a></i> by Iryn Tushabe, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman">The Immortal Woman</a></i> by Su Chang, <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-riveter">The Riveter</a></i> by Jack Wang, and <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine">We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine</a></i> by Deni Ellis Béchard</li> <li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/however-far-away-by-rajinderpal-s-pal-1.7272725">CBC Canada Reads 2025<a> long-listed <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/girl-runner-by-carrie-snyder-1.4019701">Girl Runner</a> by Carrie Snyder</a></a></li><li><i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/midway">Midway: Poems</a></i> by Kayla Czaga, a <a href="https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/winners-finalists/#2025">finalist</a> for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize</li><li>2024 <a href="https://bookcentre.ca/pages/awards/geoffrey-bilson-award-for-historical-fiction-for-young-people">Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People</a> finalist <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/focus-click-wind">Focus, Click, Rewind</a></i> by Amanda West Lewis (Groundwood Books)</li><li>2024 GG winners: <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/scientific-marvel">Scientific Marvel</a></i> by Chimwemwe Undi (<a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#winners">poetry</a>) and <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/skating-wild-on-an-inland-sea">Skating Wild on an Inland Sea</a></i> by Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart (<a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#winners">Young People's Literature – Illustrated Books</a>, under their imprint Groundwood Books, which was also a 2024 finalist for the <a href="https://bookcentre.ca/pages/awards/marilyn-baillie-picture-book-award">Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award</a>)</li><li>and 2024 GG finalists: <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/do-you-remember">Do You Remember?</a></i> by Sydney Smith (<a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#non-fiction">non-fiction</a>, under Groundwood Books), <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-all-flesh">The All + Flesh</a></i> by Brandi Bird (<a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#poetry">poetry</a>), and <i><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-age-of-insecurity">The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart</a></i> by Astra Taylor (<a href="https://ggbooks.ca/#non-fiction">non-fiction</a>).</li></ul> <center> </center> <b>Where to Buy</b>: Directly from the publisher typically supports small presses the most, and then there's <a href="https://alllitup.ca/">All Lit Up</a>, managed by <a href="http://www.lpg.ca/">The Literary Press Group</a>, a non-profit association of Canadian literary publishers. <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/metafilter">Bookshop</a></b> gives Metafilter a small (but real) commission as an affiliate, so if you're in the States, start there. Local independent bookstores can be found at <a href="https://bookmanager.com/tbm/?q=h.findastore">Bookmanager</a></b> (Canada and USA), <a href="https://indiecommerce.com/member_directory">Indie Commerce</a></b> (USA), or <a href="https://libreriasindependientes.mx/">Red de Librerías Independientes de México/Network of Independent Bookstores in Mexico</a></b> (obvs Mexico). And <a href="https://www.service95.com/best-independent-bookstores">around</a></b> the <a href="https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-independent-bookstores-around-the-world">world</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208757/-Canadian-small-presses-11-</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208757</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 13:51:24 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>joannemerriam</dc:creator> <category>AdamBunch</category> <category>AdamFeibel</category> <category>AdnanKhan</category> <category>AGPasquella</category> <category>AGregoryFrankson</category> <category>AlexManley</category> <category>AmandaWestLewis</category> <category>AndreaCurrie</category> <category>ArsenalPulpPress</category> <category>AstraTaylor</category> <category>BillArnott</category> <category>BrandiBird</category> <category>CanadianSmallPress</category> <category>CarrieSnyder</category> <category>ChimwemweUndi</category> <category>ChineloOnwalu</category> <category>ConorKerr</category> <category>CorinnaChong</category> <category>DavidHomel</category> <category>DundurnPress</category> <category>HalinaStJames</category> <category>HannahBeer</category> <category>HNigelThomas</category> <category>HouseofAnansi</category> <category>HubertMaury</category> <category>IrynTushabe</category> <category>JackWang</category> <category>JamieChaiYunLiew</category> <category>JeanEPendziwol</category> <category>JeffDupuis</category> <category>JohnElizabethStintzi</category> <category>KarinaZhou</category> <category>KaylaCzaga</category> <category>KyoLee</category> <category>LEFox</category> <category>LindaMcQuaig</category> <category>MattBobkin</category> <category>OonyaKempadoo</category> <category>PaulMyers</category> <category>RareMachines</category> <category>RyadAssaniRazaki</category> <category>SarahLeavitt</category> <category>SmallPress</category> <category>SuChang</category> <category>SuyiDaviesOkungbowa</category> <category>SydneySmith</category> <category>TahaSiddiqui</category> <category>TeresaWong</category> <category>TereseMasonPierre</category> <category>ToddStewart</category> <category>TrynneDelaney</category> <category>VeenaGokhale</category> <category>VincentAnioke</category> <category>ZenaSharman</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208757/-Canadian-small-presses-11-/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>"Bleak" seems about right</title> <description><![CDATA[An<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/prettyboysdontlookatexplosions/783379386552516608/i-appreciated-this-study-they-cant-read-very"> interesting take</a> on a fairly depressing <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/922346/pdf">study about English majors' reading abilities</a>. Spoiler: most can't read.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208756/Bleak-seems-about-right</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208756</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 12:08:40 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>signal</dc:creator> <category>reading</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208756/Bleak-seems-about-right/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>We too have been given language, spoken and written, by others than ours</title> <description><![CDATA[Some say that what makes the difference between human and machine writing—and what taints the latter—is that machines do not think, or intend, or mean. Their compositions, allowing that they do compose, are therefore not minded or mindful, and it is this lack that gives them their taint, as properly it should. Women's writing is not different from men's in this way, which is why those who took it to be tainted were illegitimately prejudiced; the prejudice about machine writing is by contrast accurately reflective of a real difference between it and writing done by human beings. This line is immediately plausible, but it depends upon, or is at least inextricably intertwined with, a high evaluation of the place of thought in human composition, oral and written, an evaluation difficult to defend in the face of ordinary empirical observation about how speech and writing happen among us. from <a href="https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-27/ghosts-and-dolls">Ghosts and Dolls</a> [The Lamp]]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208755/We-too-have-been-given-language-spoken-and-written-by-others-than-ours</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208755</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 07:22:33 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>ArtificialIntelligence</category> <category>Curiosity</category> <category>Generation</category> <category>LargeLanguageModules</category> <category>Learning</category> <category>Prejudice</category> <category>Writing</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208755/We-too-have-been-given-language-spoken-and-written-by-others-than-ours/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Sometimes, being a mycologist means testifying in a murder trial</title> <description><![CDATA[Sometimes, being a mycologist means testifying in a murder trial. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-jury-hears-court-evidence/105285362">A murder trial in Australia recently had a mycologist testify</a> about when Death Cap Mushrooms were first accidentally introduced into Australia from Europe; whether any native Australian mushrooms had the same toxins as European Death Cap Mushrooms (not as far as anyone knows); where in Australia Death Cap Mushrooms were found; how many cases of accidental Death Cap Mushroom poisoning there had been in Australia, and whether Death Cap Mushrooms grew in China (No).<br/><br/>The question about whether Death Cap mushrooms grew in China is because the defendant stated that she used dried mushrooms which she bought from a Chinese herbalist. One final thing to mention is the defence is not disputing the fact that there were death cap mushrooms in the meal. They don't dispute the fact that the people fell sick with death cap mushroom poisoning. The contested element in this case is the intent and whether Erin Patterson intended to poison these people. The defence, obviously, says she did not.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208754/Sometimes-being-a-mycologist-means-testifying-in-a-murder-trial</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208754</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:47:12 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chariot pulled by cassowaries</dc:creator> <category>DeathCapMushrooms</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208754/Sometimes-being-a-mycologist-means-testifying-in-a-murder-trial/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Stakeholder Capitalism</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/how-the-corporate-raiders-caused">How the corporate raiders lead to Trump</a> ]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208753/Stakeholder-Capitalism</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208753</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 02:21:51 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>subdee</dc:creator> <category>corporate</category> <category>trump</category> <category>uspolitics</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208753/Stakeholder-Capitalism/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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